Some more information I should have put in the initial post:
I saw this in OpenBSD/amd64 3.7, so it's not a recent change that did this.
After pxeboot, the link status is always "no carrier", even when the
link should be
up (gigabit auto). What I meant by dhclient "fails" is that it
reports "no link". The
second time it's tried, dhclient works (just like after a ping).
When the NIC is in that state ("no carrier"), no amount of ifconfigging does
anything to change this. Only when the interface is *used* (like with
ping or another program tries to access the network) does the
interface realize that the
link is there and then it suddenly works.
Also, I tried booting a diskless kernel off the disk as well as via
tftp from pxeboot
but I always get revarp failed, error=51. We run rarpd and bootparamd for other
boxes and they work fine, however the server never sees packets from these
(bge) clients.
Again thanks in advance
On 2/9/06, Need Coffee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm having some issues with bge on sun v40z systems with OpenBSD/amd64
> 3.8-stable
> and -current, SMP and UP.
>
> dmesg snippet:
> bge0 at pci2 dev 2 function 0 "Broadcom BCM5703X" rev 0x02, BCM5703 A2
> (0x1002): apic 5 int 1 (irq 5) address [snip correct mac addr]
> brgphy0 at bge0 phy 1: BCM5703 10/100/1000baseT PHY, rev. 2
> bge1 at pci2 dev 3 function 0 "Broadcom BCM5703X" rev 0x02, BCM5703 A2
> (0x1002): apic 5 int 2 (irq 7) address [snip correct mac addr]
> brgphy1 at bge1 phy 1: BCM5703 10/100/1000baseT PHY, rev. 2
>
> If I boot off the disk, it works fine. However if I use pxeboot, the
> interfaces don't work
> unless you try to put a packet on the wire.
>
> In order to make the DHCP request work from my installer, I first have to:
>
> ifconfig bge0 up
> ping -nq -c 1 -w 1 255.255.255.255
> dhclient bge0
>
> Without the 1-packet ping, dhclient will fail. For the installer this
> hack is fine, but running
> diskless doesn't work because the kernel's revarp never gets a packet
> out of the interface...
>
> Any help is very welcome. Thanks in advance.
